From the 2011-2013 NSEA Collective Bargaining Agreement:
For the 2011-12 and 2012-13 school year, NSEA members are allocated eighteen (18) optional hours for designated instructional quality (IQ) work outside the regular work day or work year focused on District instructional goals and joint NSEA/District initiatives. Options for hours include, but are not limited to, the following activities:
Specific Workshops:
- AP Institute for current AP staff.
- Elementary summer institute (except for PD necessary to implement new curricula, which is separately compensated at the curriculum rate).
- National Board trainings.
- ELL GLAD trainings.
- Special education August Procedural Half-Day training.
- National History Day training.
- DMI
Categories of Workshops/Activities:
- Committee and/or department/grade level work beyond the designated meeting times such as technology leadership committee, instructional quality committee, department/grade level meetings.
- Professional book studies aligned with District instructional goals.
- Professional learning community meetings outside the work day.
- Curricular work organized by school leadership teams.
- Job-alike collaborative work for the visual and performing arts, career and technical education, ELL, SLPs, OT/PTs and librarians.
- Assigned mentoring/coaching of new employees.
- School teams or across school teams/networks examining student data and designing interventions which support instructional decisions (via peer-based labs, peer observations, etc.).
- Other activities which support District instructional goals and performance measures.
- Education classes, trainings and/or workshops:
- For 2011-2012, the activities must be performed between August 15, 2011 and June 30, 2012.
- For 2012-2013, the activities must be performed between July 1, 2012 and June 30, 2013.
- District facilitated grade level meetings
- Grade level/content area teams meeting in conjunction with librarians, counselors, and/or Special Education teachers.
- Vertical articulation (e.g., transition years such as 6th to 7th, 9th to 10th, JH Challenge courses through AP/IB/College in the High School).
- Horizontal articulations (e.g., content area work with building and/or district specialists).
- Instructional meetings with TOSAs, instructional coaches/mentors.
IQ Hours are reported on the IQ Worksheet.
See the full text from the 11-13 NSEA Collective Bargaining Agreement.
